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Hollywood Looks to BitTorrent for Distribution

Posted by timothy on from the who-is-this-cerf-guy-anyhow dept.

daria42 writes "Vinton Cerf, who wrote the original TCP/IP protocol and is currently chairman of ICANN, said this week he had recently discussed BitTorrent with at least two interested movie producers. 'I know personally for a fact that various members of the movie industry are really getting interested in how to use the Internet--even BitTorrent--as a distributed method for distributing content,' Cerf said. 'I've spoken with several movie producers in the last month.'"

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  1. Music video legitimately released via bittorrent by garagekubrick · · Score: 5, Informative

    We released a video we made for Portland band The Decemberists to bittorrent on purpose. We've had much greater impact from that than the few times MTV2 aired it.

    Wired article details how and why.

    For everyone concerned some four weeks later it's been an enormous success.

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